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[OPPOSITIONS IN SOCIAL-DEMOCRATIC PARTIES]

Brunswick. Demonstration — "Berner Tagwacht"*
Resolution on War of the Independent Labour Party — "Labour Leader"
French Proclamation (aimed at promoting transformation into a revolutionary crisis)
Austrian Opposition Resolution...
Union of Bolsheviks of the Warring Countries................ "La Sentinelle"...

* In "Berner Tagwacht" of June 20, 1916, there is a report of a demonstration by Brunswick workers in connection with the conviction of K. Knecht to imprisonment in a fortress. —Ed.

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"ARCHIV FÜR SOZIALWISSENSCHAFT UND SOZIALPOLITIK"

In "Archiv für Soz[ial]wiss[ensch]aft u[nd] Soz[ial]politik". 1916 (August 1916) (Vol. 42, No. 1).
Article: "Die G[e]w[er]ksch[a]ftsb[e]w[egung] i[m] J[ahre] 1915"...
Section: Ideologies of the Trade Unions...

2 tendencies not covered by reformism and radicalism.
[Corr]espondenzblatt accordingly in Sozialist[ische] M[onats]hefte.

"However, there are but few trade-union papers which express their deviating, more radical views clearly. Most of these are then organs of associations whose members consist largely of unskilled workers or women" (325)...

..."For the organs of the old large trade unions advocate positively for the majority, while others maintain a more reserved position. Explicit statements in favor of the viewpoint and conduct of the minority are, so far as can be seen, nowhere to be recorded" (327)...

Regarding the Metallarbeiterverband, the author notes that the leadership's majority consists of workers in this profession where earnings are higher (330), there are fewer bribes, that it is an old and very large trade union, "which has always constituted a stronghold for moderate views," that at the general assembly of June 30, 1915... an indirect, almost-concealed censure of the leadership was passed: "The acceptance of this motion indicates, however, that in the circles of the trade-union masses other views and sentiments prevail than in the leadership" (332)...

At the top there crystallizes a "petty-bourgeois stratum" (335)...
The Correspondenzblatt (April 17, 1915) declares the struggle against imperialism to be just as absurd as the destruction of machines.

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